7Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'


In Context

4 And they say, 'Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

5 And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

6 and Jehovah saith, 'Lo, the people is one, and one pronunciation is to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

7 Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

8 And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

9 therefore hath one called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:7Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.|

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.